Merganser Mini-Me's

[dankearl]

Taken a few days ago in a pond on San Juan Island in the Puget Sound.
The youngest group of Merganser chicks I have ever seen and I have to say, are about
the cutest duck chicks I have ever seen, they all looked like Mom!
Very late in the year, just stumbled upon them in a real stroke of luck.

1/800, f8, iso800, 600mm, D800, HH

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[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful family picture, Dan. I have seen similar scene long time ago but no image.

[Mike Delgado]

Real nice capture.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image of cute ones with beautiful panorama crop composition.
Love the group of chicks and pose of the one on RHS with beautiful hair do.

Regards,
Satish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Too cute...and I love your title. I like all the preening action going on. I know they were likely quite active and it would be much to ask for, but too bad the leftmost chick did not turn its head more towards you.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the low angle, sharpness, details and composition. Beautiful family image Dan!

[Randy Stout]

Dan:

Cute indeed. Good shooting angle, well exposed, good DOF. Tough as can be to get all the head angles right. I have been trying for years to get the perfect loon feeding image with the proper head/fish angles, but am still working on it, so appreciate the almost impossible task of getting 7 good head angles!

Cheers

Randy

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
Great shooting angle, nice comp, and I really like that they are all preening.
Very well done.

[David Salem]

Great pose on mom's body and head. Nice feather detail 2. You're right they do look just like mom, little mini mes.
Cute but clean. Well done Dan.